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Name: N. J. EATON
Type: Side-wheeler, Glasglow packet Size:
Launched: 1855, Apr., Louisville
Destroyed: 1856, Apr. 9: at Augusta Bend on her first trip up
Mo. R.. Boat total loss.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Nanson, Joseph S.
Captain Nanson, Joseph S.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: N. W. GRAHAM
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 174' X 30.5' X5'
Launched: 1853, Covington Ky.
Destroyed: 1860, dismantled
Area: Out of New Orleans, mostly
Owner: one owner of 5 or 6, Capt. John J. Kercheval
Comment: 1856, Oct. 22, Renamed SELMA (the 2nd one)
1. Name: N.W. THOMAS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 178' X 35' X 7.2', 419 tons.
Launched: 1853, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: 1858-61, Cincinnati-New Orleans trade
Owners: 1853, operated by Capt. William Shorpshire of New Orleans
Captains: c. 1858, John A. Duble
1861, W.B. Phillips
Comments: did Civil War service on lower Ohio R.
1. Name: NADINE
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet. Size: 23 tons.
Power: 8" - 3 ft.
Launched: Built 1872 Howard's Ferry, Arrow Rock, Mo, by Gustave Moehle
and Sons.
Destroyed: 1878, Sept. 10, Snagged 3 mi. above mouth of Mo. R. on Miss. R.
Area: Mo. R. and Lamine R., Osage R.
Owner: Originally, Nicholas W. Smith
*1897, Sites, Capt. Lee Thomas and Moehle, Gustave
1878 when sunk, J.A. Stien
Captain(s): *1897-early 1900s, Lee Thomas Sites
1878 when sunk, Roy Coulter, pilot.
Comments: *from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: Mentioned in this Article.
1. Name: NAIAD, originally the PRINCESS
1863
Name: NAIL CITY
Launched: 1870's?
Area: Ohio R.
Captains: owner and or captain, A.T. Armstrong
: 1882, July, Davis
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951. Note, at the bottom of page,
"The Nail City Boat Club".
: * Helped raise the SCIOTO after her colission with the JOHN LOMAS
: About death of head engineer William Page
Name: NAKOMIS
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Comments: 1918 was operating on the Miss. R. under government
sponsored freight service.
Name: NAPOLEON
Name: NARRAGANSETT
Launched: 1870s?
Destroyed: Blew up after a collision.
Area: Rhode Island Sound
Owner: Stonington Line.
* Name: NASHVILLE
Size: 200 tons
Power:High pressure
Launched: 1822, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1826, snagged
1. Name: NASHVILLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 93 tons
Launched: 1846, Freedom, Pa.
Destroyed: 1847, July Allegheny warf, burned.
Owner: Frisbee, Miller and Company
1. Name: NASHVILLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 250' X 40' X 7.5, 497 tons
Power: 23's- 10 ft.,by Phillips, Hise and Co.. 5 boilers,
Launched: 1849, New Albany, Ind.
Area: Nashville - New Orleans
Captain: Thomas Bellanyder
Comments: At outbreak of Civil War, boat was converted into the hospital
ship NASHVILLE. Her 2 decks accomodated 1,000 casualities
: Civil War Boats
: From site visitor Martin Wsulstein:
"I have been having a difficult time finding a picture of the
Civil War Hospital River Boat "Nashville". An ancestor of mine,
Dr. Bernhardt (von) Beust, was a surgeon and in charge of this
hospital in 1864. It's home port was New Albany Indiana.
It traveled on the Mississippi picking up wounded bringing
them to New Albany and thence to a General Hospital.
If you can direct me to a site having such a photo please let
me know. Thank you."
1. Name: NASHVILLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 211 tons
Launched: 1860, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1869, dismantled. Engines to JULIA A. RUDOLPH
Area: 1860, Cincinnati - Nashville
1862, in U.S. service handling supplies.
Owner: 1864, May, reprtedly sold to F. Beaty of Ironton, Oh.
Companies Associated with; 1861, Pioneer Line
Captains: 1860, P.K. Barclay
Comments: Civil War Boats
1. Name: NASHVILLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hulled packet Size: 396 tons
Launched: 1871, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: 1871, Nashville - Cincinnati
1873, Evansville - Memphis, Tenn. R.
1877, Cincinnati - Tenn. R.
Owner: 1872, spring, Cincinnati, Big Sandy and Pomertoy Packet Company
Captains: 1871, P.K. Barclay
1873, A.E. Drankwater
1877, Jack Sleeth
1. Name: NASHVILLE/SOUTHLAND
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 155' X 34' X 4'
Power: conpound engines, 11's, 22's- 5 ft., by Gillett and Eaton
Launched: 1910, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1932, Dec. 16, Spottsville, Ky., burned while laid up.
Area: 1910, Evansville - Nashville. Later, Paducah - Nashville
1918, Louisville - Stephensport - Evansville
Owner: 1918, Apr. purchased at forced sale by Williams Bros.
Captains: 1910, Shep Green
Comments: 1922, rebuilt at Paducah and renamed SOUTHLAND
Name: NASSAU
Type: Ferryboat Size: 78' X 32' X 7'
Launched: 1813
Area: Brooklyn, NY - Connecticut
Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Company
Comments: Source
Name: NATCHEZ
Please use this link to go to a separate page devoted to the 9
RIVERBOATS NATCHEZ
Name: NATHAN B. FOREST
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Area: Tenn. R.. Chattanooga-Paducah, Ky.
Owners: Chattanooga and Decatur Packet Company
Name: NAUMKEAG/MONTGOMERY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: unknown.
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1867, Jan. 19, Erie, Ala., burned. 3 lives lost.
Owners: U.S. service during C. War.
1863, Apr. 19, sold to private hands.
Comments: 1863, Apr, renamed MONTGOMERY.
Name: NAUSHON/NEWSBOY
Launched: 1845
Area: Long Island Sound
Owner: as NEWSBOY, the New York Hearld
Comments: Later became a Coney I. excursion boat, then a Civil War
troop carrier.
Name: NAUTILUS
Name: NAVAJO
Launched: ?1900-1911?
Area: California Delta
Name: NAVIGATOR
1. Name: NEBRASKA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 101' X 13.5' X 3.1', 39 tons.
Power: 1 cyl., cogwheels, flywheels, belts and other.
Launched: 1853, Kittanning, Pa.
Destroyed: 1866, Jan. 13, St. Louis, ice
Area: 1856, Pittsburgh-West Newton, up Youghiogheny R.
1858? Upper White R., Ark.
During War, St. Louis
1864, transfered registry to St. Louis
Owners: When new, Walter A. Burleigh and William L. Greenhill
Later just Greenhill.
1864, Vincent J. Wood of St. Louis.
Captains; 1858? Cummins (See)
1864, John Olivate
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: NECHES BELL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: built to handle 500 bales of cotton. A relitively small boat.
Built: 1889, Beaumont, Tex. total cost, excluding machinery, $3.000
Destroyed: 1897, Logansport, tied up and left when the law impounded her for debt.
Water went down and she turned over.
Area: Neches and Sabine Rs., Texas
Owner: When new, Capts. Bill Loving and Pearl Bunn
Alladice & Liles, (Capt. John M. Liles [Lyles?])
Captain: Master was Capt. John M. Liles.
Pilot, then mate and later master, was John G. White
Toward her end, pilot, maybe, Will Loving
Comments: *Engines and machinery from the VICKSBURG.
: *Had electric lighting by 1893.
: Was most luxurious Neches R. Packet of the day.
: See source Article
Name: NED TRACY, Originally the D.A. JANUARY
1. Name: NELLIE PECK
Type: Stern-wheeler, wooden hull packet. Size: 201.4' X 35.2' X 4.'.
Launched: 1871, Brownsville, Pa. construction supervised by Capt.
Grant Marsh.
Destroyed: 1892, still listed
Area: U. Mo. primarily
1875, Jan. made cotton run, Little Rock - New Orleans.
Owner: Dupree and Peck, Levenworth, Ks. (Northwest Transportation Company)
Captains: 1871-72, Grant Marsh.
Comments: Made some 14 trips to Ft. Benton, Mont. in her career.
: 1872, was first arrival at Ft. Benton. Capt. Marsh.
: 1872, lost round-trip race with FAR WEST, Capt. Mart Coulson,
Sioux City to Ft. Benton and back.
: At levee at Bismark, Dakota Territory in '77.
Name: NELLIE ROGERS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 178' X 32' X 4.6', 249 tons
Launched: 1862, Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1872, Jeffersonville,Ind., Dismantled. Hull used as barge.
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: 1862, Capt. E.W. Gould, C.S. Rogers, T.B. Chipley all of St. Louis
with James Abrams, Naples, Ill. and Samuel Rider, Griggsville, Ill..
Later, Huntsville Transportation Company
Captains: 1862, Gould, E.W.
1870, Jan 5, Rogers, Thomas
Name: NELSON
Area: 1849: Ohio R. around Wheeling, W. Va. area
Captain(s): Moore
Comments: From The Daily Wheeling Gazette, April 2, 1849, p. 2
Name: NENANA
Type: Sternwheeler
Size: Length, 237'; Width, 42'; tons, 260
Launched: May 15, 1933.
Restored: Nenana:
Area: Yukon and Nenana Rivers in Alaska
Owner(s): The Alaska Railroad;
: Present, Town of Nenana, Alaska
Comments: Built during 1932 and 1933. It was especially designed
with a flat bottom and a beautiful curve.
The parts were made in Seattle, Washington and taken to
Nenana, Alaska where they were assembled and launched.
After the Nenana was launched, the boat had some
problems. It was then taken from the river and modified.
More on Alaskan Riverboats
Name: NETTI DURANT
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.
1. Name: NETTIE QUILL/MONROE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 178.4' X 33.4' X 5.6'
Launched: 1886, Freedom Pa. for Capt. John Quill, Mobile Ala.
Destroyed: 1915, Sept. 29, New Oeleans, lost in hurricane
Area: Went to Mobile when new
1915, out of New Orleans
As MONROE, New Orleans-Ouachita R. trade
Owners: When new, Capt. John Quill
1915, Capt. Swayzie and others
1. Name: NEVADA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 116' X 24' X 3.5', 75 tons.
Launched: 1861, Keokuk, Iowa
Destroyed: 1871, off the lists
Owners: 3/4- W.H. Harris and 1/4- Robert E. Ventress
1. Name: NEVADA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 299 tons.
Launched: 1863, Belle Vernon, Pa.
Destroyed: 1866, Apr. 7, St. Louis, burned
Area: Pittsburgh-St. Louis
Owned in Pittsburgh
Captain: W.S. Evans
Name: NEVILLE
Launched: 1920's, early
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: Source
1. Name: NEW BOSTON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 234 tons.
Launched: 1864, Port Byron, Ill.
Destroyed: 1873, off the lists.
Area: 1864-on, Fort Madison-Rock Island
Owners: when new, B.H. Cambpell, Galena and B.W. Davis, Rock Island
1864, at close of season, purchased by The Northern Line
Captains: 1864, first master, Melville
*At one time piloted by Oscar M. Ruby
Comments: In Fort Madison-Rock Island trade this boat was partnered with the CITY of KEITHSBURG
3. Name: NEW ENGLAND
Launched: 1840's mid?
Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: NEW ENGLAND
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 175' X 24' X 4.8'. 190 tons.
Launched: 1844, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1849, off the lists.
Area: Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1847, started Pittsburgh-Wheeling
Owners: Capt. Samuel B. Page with James Holmes, both of Pittsburgh.
Captains: 1844, Master, Samuel B. Page
1847, G.W. Ebbert
: to Mexican War, William J. Kountz
Comments: was flagship of fleet departing Pittsburg carring troops to Mexican War.
: Staterooms named for States and other names of places.
Name: NEW ENTERPRISE
Area: 1834, Louisville to St. Louis
Comments: Info for this entry came from the diary of an ancestor of
web site visitor Kathryn Grogman. grogman@earthlink.net
Name: NEW HAMPSHIRE
Launched: 1845, Pittsburg area
Destroyed: 1847, early
Comments: Passengers were rescued from this boat's wreck by the crew of the HATCHEE PLANTER
: The source for this listing is the above advertisment.
Name: NEW HOME
Launched, 1886, Calico Rock, Ark.
Area: 1886, Buffalo City and Lead Hill trade on White R.
Owner: Capt. Thomas B. Stallings
Comments: Source
Name: NEW ERA
1. Name: NEW LUCY
Type: sidewheeler, wooden hull packet. Size: 225' X 33'.
Power: 22's- 8 ft., 4 boilers.
Launched: 1852, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1857, Nov. 22, DeWitt, Mo., burned while laid up for ice. Also See
Area: Mo. R.
: *1857, Mar. 21, held up at Jefferson City, Mo. for repairs.
Mar. 22, 3:00 PM, departed Jeff City, up Mo. R., put into
Kansas City, Mar. 25, 11:00PM; Levenworth, Ks.
Mar. 26 and on same day the line's terminus, Weston,
Mo. at 10 AM.
Owners: Built for Keokuk Packet Company.
Lightning Line, Later sold to others.
1857, Captain Tom Brierly of St. Joseph, Mo.
Captains: 1855, William Couley
1856, William Eads/Edds, Sr.
Pilot: 1855, William Raymond Massie
Comments: Reputed to be the best on Mo. R., a floating palace in her time.
And fast.
: * From the Diary OF E.F. Beatle
: Also see excerpt from the autobiography One-Way Ticket To Kansas
: Mentioned in this article from Boone’s Lick Heritage
: See article on Steamboats.org blog
1. Name: NEW MARY HOUSTON
Type; Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 287" X 41' X 7.3'
Launched: 1877, Oct. 28, Jeffersonville, Ind., Barmore Yard
Destroyed: 1893, Jan. 10, New Orleans, when upriver ice gorge broke. Swept
boat into bridge. Stacks were knocked down. Drifted to
Petersburg, Ky. and was shoved ashore. Soon dismantled.
Area: 1877 - , Cincinnati-New Orleans
Captains: 1877 Charles Miller
1880: Mate, Charles Dowerman; pilots James Pell and
John Morledge
In later years and when cut down, Master was Lew Kates
Comments: had one powerful electric light able to light up the river ahead.
: Equipment came from MARY HOUSTON
Name: NEW MONONGAHALA
Area: 1857, The Diary of E.F. Beatle has arriving at Omaha, Neb., June 4,
June 26, July 11.
Name: NEW ORLEANS
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: 138 X 30 ft., 300-400 tons.
Launched: 1811, Mar. at Pittsburgh by Robert Livingston and
Robert Fulton at a cost of $40,000.
Destroyed: 1814, winter, Baton Rouge, snagged and lost.
Area: Miss. R. Primarilly New Orleans to Natchez
Owner: Livingston, Robert and Fulton, Robert and Nicholas Roosevelt, DBA
Ohio Steamboat Navigation Company.
Captain(s): ?Fulton, Robert?
Pilot: 1811, Roosevelt, Nicholas
Comments: 1811, Oct. 20 started down Ohio R. , piloted by Nicholas Roosevelt
(Teddy Roosevelt's great grand-uncle.) on first western
steamboat trip from Pittsburgh to New Orleans with a
Captain, an engineer, a pilot, 6 deck hands, a waiter,
a cook, 2 female serents for Mrs, Roosevelt (pregnant)
and his brother-in-law. Wife gave birth to son in her
cabin while docked at Louisville. Boat weathered
earthquake which shook towns in the Mississippi
Valley. Arrived in N.O. 1812, Jan 10 or 12.
Comments: Notes from the WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951.
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: See book excerpt from Pittsburgh History
Name: NEW ORLEANS
Type: Sidewheeler
Comments: Color print by K. Chin
Name: NEW ORLEANS replica
Launched: 1911 in Elizabeth, Pa..
Destroyed: 1913?, Abandoned, Brasher LA.
Area: Ohio. R, Miss. R.
1911: Stopped in Wheeling, W. Va.
Owners: built for Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
Captain: 1911, on reinactment of historic run, Pittsburgh-New Orleans,
Melvin O. Irwin, of New Matamoris, Oh.
Comments: Built for and made the 1911 Pittsburgh Centennial run
down-river alone.
: Capt. J. Orville Noll was steward on this trip
: Was sold to Capt. Willie Dutch who converted her to twin prop gas-power
for N.O.-Abbeville venture. Was not sucessful.
Name: NEW RICHMOND See
Name: NEW ST. PAUL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
Launched: 1852,
Destroyed:
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: NEW SENSATION See Showboats
Name: NEW SHALLCROSS
Type: Sidewheel woodenhull ferryboat.
Size: 160' X 36.9' X 6.1'
Power: Engines, 20's- 6 ft.
Launched: 1878, Jeffersonville, Ind, by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1891, ?dismantled?
Owners: 1978, Louisville & Jeffersonville Ferry Co.
Comments: 1891, engines went to ferry COLUMBIA.
: probably connected with one of the captains Shallcross.
: see JOHN SHALLCROSS
Name: NEW SHOWBOAT See Showboats
Name: NEW STATE
Launched: Wheeling, W. Va.
Area: Ohio R., Miss. R.
Owner(s): Wilson, Capt. W.W.
Captain(s): Wilson, W.W.
Comments: Note from the WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
Name: NEW WAR EAGLE
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Pacific Rail road Packet Co.
Captain and pilots: Capt. White.
Comments: Plied trade from St. Louis to Jefferson City to connect
with trains for Kansas, Fr. Levenworth, Weston,
Atchinson and St Joseph.
3. Name: NEW WORLD
Type: Side-wheeler Size:530 ton.
Launched: 1850, New York City
Area: Long Island Sound/ Sacramento R./Colorado R.
Owner: Brown, William: 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
Captains: 1850, Wakeman, Ned
: Brown, William
Comments: See her adventursome, early exploits here.
Name: NEWARK
Area: Long Island Sound
Name: NEWELLA
Type: Size: Small.
Destroyed: 1860s.
Area: Mo. R.
Name: NEWSBOY, see NAUSHON
1. Name: NEWSBOY (The 1st one)
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 133' X 27.3' X 3.4', 115 tons
Launched: 1862, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1870, out of service
Area: 1862, early, U. Ohio R., Bellaire-New Martinsville,
1866, Evansville-Henderson trade; 1867 one round trip daily.
Owner: 1862, late, sold to USQMD; 1866 back to private ownership
Captain: 1867, Sept., Perkins, C.G.
*At one time, Boisseau, Joseph of Shreveport, La.
Comments: *From Boisseau Biography
Name: NEZ PIERCE? CHIEF
Name: NIAGARA
Launched: 1840, after.
Magic Cabin
NAme: NICK THOMAS - Nick(, yuck, yuck,) name for N.W. THOMAS
Name: NILE
Launched: 1860s?
Area: U. Mo.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Marsh, Grant
Name: NIMROD
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Mo. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. La Barge, Joseph.
1. Name: NINA SIMMES
Type: Sidewheel wooden packet Size: 178.8' X 35.5' X 6.7', 327 tons
Launched: 1860, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1869, Apr. 17, near Baton Rouge, snagged and lost.
Area: 1860, New Orleans-Opelousas, weekly
1865, New Orleans-Bayou Sara
Owner: 1860, Capt. G.E. Lenaillier and others
Captains: 1865, Lenaillier, G.E.; 1865, Greathouse, W.R.
Comments: Was hidden in upper Red River during Civil War.
Name: NIZINA
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched: 1909
Area: Copper River, Alaska
Comments:See Alaskan Riverboats, Copper River
Name: NOAH'S ARK
Name: NOMINEE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hulled packet Size: 212 tons
Launched: 1848, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1854, Apr. 8, snagged and lost at Britts Landing.
Area: U. Miss. R.: 1849, Pittsburgh - Cincinnati
:1850, St. Paul trade
Owner: 1854, Galena & Minnesota Packet Co.
Captain(s): 1848, Smith, Joseph
: 1850, Harris, D. Smith
: 1851- 53 or 4, Orrin Smith, 1854, Apr. Russell Blakeley
Comments: Mentioned a few times in this Article
1851, Apr. 4, arrived at St. Paul, Minn.
1852, Apr. 16, arrived At St.Paul
1854, Apr. 8, arrived at St. Paul
Credit: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
Name: NORTH ALABAMA
Destroyed: Near Vermillion, SD
Area: Mo. R.
Captains: 1869, Capt. Marsh, Grant
Comments: 1869, fall, Marsh risked ice entrapment to deliver
supplies to forts along U. Mo. R.
Name: NORTH AMERICAN
Area: Hudson R.
Captain(s): Buckman
Comments: Source
Name: NORTH AMERICAN
Launched: Late 1820's?
Comments: 1830: made run N.O - Memphis in 6 days, a record.
Name: NORTH CAROLINA More info
Destroyed:1840, July 26. Struck by the Gov. Dudley
Area: Miss. R.?
Name: NORTH POINT
Name: NORTH RIVER See CLERMONT
Name: NORTH ST.LOUIS
Comments: 1837, July, Attempted to navigate Missouri's Osage R. but was
interrupted when 40 mi. upstream the steamer grounded on the
gravel bar that bears its name. Was refloated by spring rains.
See Article
Name: NORTH STAR
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.?
1. Name: NORTH WESTERN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 245' X 38.5' X 5.', 802 tons.
Power: engines, 26's-8 ft. from JAMES WHITE, 4 boilers each 41" X 26'
Launched: 1870, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1882, July 12, St. Louis, foot of Alma St., burned.
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owners: built for Keokuk Northern Line
Captains: 1870-75, Thomas L. Davidson
1882, Al Haycock
At one time piloted by Oscar M. Ruby
1. Name: NORTHERN BELLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 226' X 29' X 5.', 329 tons.
Launched: 1856, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1870, off the lists.
Area: *1858, Galena-Dubuque-Dunleith-St. Paul
1862, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1856, Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith and Minnesota Packet Company
1862, Davidson, Commodore W. F.
Captains: 1858-59, Jesse Y. Hurd
1861, W.H. Laughton
Comments: *1856 or so, raced KEY CITY, lost.
: Became tow-boat. Was also the longest lived steamboat.
: Mentioned in this Article
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
1. Name: NORTHERN LIGHT
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 240' X 40' X 5.', 414 tons.
Power: 22's -7 ft., 8 boilers, each 46" X 17'
Wheels, 31' with 9' buckets w/30" dip.
Launched: 1857, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed:1866, Apr. 11, Coon Slough, Stern struck pile of ice, sank in 30'.
Area: 1857, U. Miss. R.
*1858, Galena-Dubuque-Dunleith-St. Paul
Owner: 1856, Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith and Minnesota Packet Company
1857, Northern Line Packet Company
Captains: 1856-1860 at least, Preston Lodwick
1860, John B. Davis
1862, W.H. Gabbert
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
Name: NORTHERNER
1853-57
Name: NORTHERNER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull, packet. Size: 210' X 33' X 5.5', 332 tons.
Launched: 1858, Elizabeth, Pa., Ekin yard
Destroyed: 1864, July 13, St. Louis, burned
Area: 1858, St. Louis-St. Paul, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1858, Northern Line Packet Company
18??, United States Mail Line
Captain: 1858, Pliny A. Alvord
Comments: Made run Louisville - St. Louis 1854, 1/22/30
: Mentioned in this Article
: St. Croix R., raced KEY CITY. Lost.
Name: NORWICH
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 175 X 45
Launched: 1836,
Destroyed: as late as 1909
Area: Hudson R.
1.Name: NOVELTY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 64 tons
Launched: 1859, Wheeling, Va.
Area: 1860, Upper White R. serving Marion County landings
Comments: 1861, went to Confederate registry.
: Mentioned in this Article
1.Name: NOVELTY
Launched: 1886, Manchester, Oh.
1.Name: NOVELTY
Launched: 1894, Vicksburg, Miss.
3. Name: NUEVA HERMANOS
Launched: 1840's mid?
Area: Sacramento R. Calf.
Comments: 1849, Aug. 31, Listed in the Alta Californian as plying trade
on the waters of the Sacramento R.
Name: NUNIVEC
Launched: 1890s?
Area: Alaska
Owner: U. S. As a coast guard boat
Name: NYMPH
1862-64
Name: NYMPH
1863-65+
Name: NYMPH No. 2
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 147' X 24.9' X 4.', 149 tons.
Power: From Way's "Engines: 10" - 4' 8", 3 boilers, each 18' long,
the center one being 42" in dia., the side ones 22" dia..
There were two 14" flues in the center boiler and one 14" in the side boilers."
Launched: 1864, Portsmouth, Oh. for Capt. Henry Davies of Portsmouth, Oh.
Destroyed: 1868, Mar. 3, There is a record of a NYMPH that sank on a chain of rocks at
Sibley, Mo., this may be that NYMPH.
